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Attributed to Correggio

1489?-1534

Head of a Woman Crying Out

ca. 1509-1511

Charcoal and black chalk and white chalk, on two pieces of light brown paper joined vertically at left.

12 5/8 x 8 7/8 inches (321 x 225 mm)

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

IV, 30

Notes:

Watermark: None visible through lining.
Fragment of the cartoon for the fresco tondo Christ's Entombment, portico of S. Andrea, Mantua.
Formerly attributed to Ercole de' Roberti and to Anonymous, Italian School, 16th century.

Inscription:

Inscribed on verso of old mount at upper center, in pen and brown ink, "M / No.[o superscript] 1"; in graphite, "lot 806. / v i / S D; gen(?) Sebastiano del Piombo", in pen and brown ink, "L..." (cut off by edge of sheet).

Provenance:

Nicola Francesco Haym (ca. 1679-1729; Lugt 1970), London; the Earls of Spencer, Althorp House, Northamptonshire (Lugt 1530), London; sale, London, T. Philipe, 11 June 1811, lot 806, (as Leonardo da Vinci); William Alexander (1767-1816), London; his sale, London, Sotheby's, 12 March 1817, part of lot 894 (as Leonardo da Vinci); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.

Associated names:

Anonymous, Italian School, 16th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Roberti, Ercole de', -1496, Formerly attributed to.
Haym, Nicola Francesco, former owner.
Spencer, Earl, former owner.
Alexander, William, 1767-1816, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.

Bibliography:

Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 73.
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 4: no. 30 (as Lombard school); Parker 1927, no. 27 (as Ercole de' Roberti); Ortolani 1941, 202-3; Tietze 1947, no. 15 (as Ferrarese school); Popham 1957, no. 1; Zamboni 1958, 191; New York 1959, no. 14; Bean 1960, 168; Hartford 1960, no. 68; Bottari 1961, 10; Ames 1962, no. 265; Ames 1963, 104, 132; New York 1965-66, no. 65; Quintavalle 1970, under 13B; Pelati 1974, 7-8; Gould 1976, 283; Brown 1977, 861; New York 1981, no. 17; Washington and Parma 1984, no. 1; De Marchi 1986, 28; Di Giampaolo and Muzzi 1989, no. 1; Ekserdjian 1997, 26; London and New York 2000-2001, no. 1; New York 2006, no. 13; Paris 2008, no. 196; Rennes 2015, under no. 22.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 30, repr.
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. I: The Italian Renaissance. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1965, p. 48, no. 65, repr.
European drawings, 1375-1825 / catalogue compiled by Cara D. Denison & Helen B. Mules ; with the assistance of Jane V. Shoaf. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1981, p. 44, no. 17.
From Leonardo to Pollock: Master drawings from the Morgan Library. New York: Morgan Library, 2006, cat. no. 13, p. 30-31.

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